My Dance Card is Full

I’m overcommitted. I recently changed jobs, moving from Magenic Technologies, a software consulting firm, to Sagepath, a creative agency. I knew the new job would be great when they paid my way to MIX10 my second week at work.

On top of that I submitted talks to several regional conferences and the voting has begun to select speakers.

For the DEVLINK conference I also have three talks which are currently doing well in community voting. This is a blind vote, though, so I won’t list the sessions I have submitted.

With Ambrose Little and Brady Bowman, I have started a reading group on Umberto Eco’s A Theory of Semiotics called ‘Semiotics and Technology’ and hosted on google groups. We have just finished the first chapter and are beginning our discussion of the Introduction.

In addition, I have been working with several members of the Atlanta developer community to organize ReMIX Atlanta. The goal of ReMIX is to have a different kind of conference – one that caters to both the developer community and the design-UX community. These are traditionally two communities that do not necessarily get along – and yet they must if we are ever to get beyond the current proliferation of unusable applications and non-functional websites. To quote Immanuel Kant:

“Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.”

I also need to stain the deck and build a website for my wife – and in the time left over I plan to build the next killer application for the Windows Phone 7 Series app store. This time next year I will be blogging to you from a beach in Tahiti while reclining on a chair made from my Windows Phone app riches.